Cris Shore

This course has two main aims. The first is to interrogate the concept of ‘policy’ and examine how it works – as a socio-cultural category, a political technology and an instrument of governance. The second is to look at particular policies: how they are framed, how they represent the problem to be solved, their history and genealogies. A smaller but related aim is to open up the field of Policy Studies to more critical scrutiny in order probe the ideological assumptions and ethnocentric biases that continue to shape the world of policy making.